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Moving to AZ - research thread

Discussion in 'Arizona' started by Breathing Borla, Aug 10, 2024.

  1. Jun 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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    Breathing Borla

    Breathing Borla [OP] I'd rather be fishing

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    ya no choice so just going to have to deal with it
     
  2. Jun 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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    Breathing Borla

    Breathing Borla [OP] I'd rather be fishing

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    ya not much I can do about it so just have to suck it up and make the best out of it

    monsoons and humid all the way through August and September or just August?

    the times I’ve been out there in sept it wasn’t humid and no rain

    then again maybe my definition of humid is more lol
     
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  3. Jun 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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    Azblue

    Azblue Beer is Good Staff Member

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    The Dirty T ( ^_^)_且


    Mostly July and August, tapers off in Sept.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1S4_tt40iI
     
  4. Jun 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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    Yup, it's f'n miserable out. Work will suck this weekend.
     
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  5. Jun 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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    Breathing Borla

    Breathing Borla [OP] I'd rather be fishing

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    That’s one thing I have going for me, I don’t work outside anymore, that must be rough out there
     
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  6. Jun 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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    FrenchToasty The Desert rat, SSEM #5/25, 6 lug enthusiast

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    I love it when we go to a call at work and people are complaining it’s 78 in their office, I want to be like, hey come up on the roof with me for two hours…..
     
  7. Jun 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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    Breathing Borla

    Breathing Borla [OP] I'd rather be fishing

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    holy shit dude, your a roofer out there in the summer? I can’t even imagine that
     
  8. Jun 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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    I don't actually HAVE to work outside. But, I really hate sitting trapped inside locomotives for 12 hours a day (or night).
    So, the trade off for having a schedule and working 8 hour shift is dealing with the weather.
     
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  9. Jun 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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    NWPirate

    NWPirate Give me overtime or give me death

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    He's a HVAC dude, lot of roof time in that trade.
     
  10. Jun 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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    I remember delivering the mail in those sweat box LLV mail trucks. Just an aluminum box, no interior panel, no firewall insulation, and just a fan that made it worse by blowing that hot air at you from the dash/firewall if you turned it on. I could handle it when I was younger but I'm glad I have a desk job now.
     
  11. Jun 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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    That would be pretty brutal.

    After every summer I always tell myself it's the last summer I'm going to work in the yard.

    For awhile I had a Ford Exploder at work to roll around in. That was nice, heat, a/c, stereo. Then it did lived up to it's name. Now I'm back to the Kawi Mule. With a windshield for extra hotness ( although nice in the rain)! We break so much sh't, the rental companies don't want to rent to UP anymore.
     
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  12. Jun 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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    Breathing Borla [OP] I'd rather be fishing

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    I bet, I know who to call if one of the heat pumps shits out, ha!
     
  13. Jun 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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    FrenchToasty The Desert rat, SSEM #5/25, 6 lug enthusiast

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    HVAC and low temp refrigeration, plenty of work out here in the desert.
     
  14. Jun 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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    FrenchToasty The Desert rat, SSEM #5/25, 6 lug enthusiast

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    Yes, thankfully we do have a lot of water cooled and rack systems inside, but I’m always sweating. Lots of up and down a ladder, in and out of drop ceilings with bullshit access to condensers.
     
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    FrenchToasty The Desert rat, SSEM #5/25, 6 lug enthusiast

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    The trash guys at work have these sweet kubota type utv things that have AC and the works. That seems to be the only good thing about their job. How they pickup and move these mobile trash bins is sooo stupid. I’m not a smart man, but I could think of at least 3 ways to make their life/job easier
     
  16. Jun 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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    BeauDacious 040 > all other colors

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    Ummm.. No thanks. I love living here, but have no illusions of doing roofing in the summer, or at all. However. I do get half a dozen estimates on things, and usually go middle of that range.
     
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  17. Jun 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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    Nice! I so wish we had that. Although we are supposed to get a new actual truck soon. So, we'll see if that pans out.
     
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